One of the most important features that Mozilla Firefox has focused on is the security aspect of the browser. After every download that you trigger using Firefox, there is a security check that runs an anti-virus utility to ensure the security of the data on your computer . This, in some cases, causes the speed of ﬁle downloads to reduce considerably since every download has an independent virus check done on it. If you need to download many ﬁles then this may act as a hindrance since you will have to approve every individual download.

Click on the address bar and type in ‘about:conﬁg’.

There are chances that you might be redirected to a page that will ask you to conﬁrm your actions. On the warning that appears,

Click on ‘I’ll be careful, I promise!’.and you will see a list of preferences.

Narrow down your search by typing ‘browser.download.manager.scanWhenDone’ in the ﬁlter bar.

A single value is displayed in the ‘Preference Name’ column.

Double click on ‘browser.download.manager.scanWhenDone’ preference to make the ‘Value’ change to ‘False’.

The changed value is reﬂected in bold text.

Henceforth, these security checks will stop bothering you every time you download a ﬁle. However this is not recommended these days as there is a possibility that the ﬁle downloaded may contain malicious code and this can force you to compromise on the security of the data saved on your computer.

One of the most important features that Mozilla Firefox has focused on is the security aspect of the browser. After every download that you trigger using Firefox, there is a security check that runs an anti-virus utility to ensure the security of the data on your computer . This, in some cases, causes the speed of ﬁle downloads to reduce considerably since every download has an independent virus check done on it. If you need to download many ﬁles then this may act as a hindrance since you will have to approve every individual download.

Click on the address bar and type in ‘about:conﬁg’.

There are chances that you might be redirected to a page that will ask you to conﬁrm your actions. On the warning that appears,

Click on ‘I’ll be careful, I promise!’.and you will see a list of preferences.

Narrow down your search by typing ‘browser.download.manager.scanWhenDone’ in the ﬁlter bar.

A single value is displayed in the ‘Preference Name’ column.

Double click on ‘browser.download.manager.scanWhenDone’ preference to make the ‘Value’ change to ‘False’.

The changed value is reﬂected in bold text.

Henceforth, these security checks will stop bothering you every time you download a ﬁle. However this is not recommended these days as there is a possibility that the ﬁle downloaded may contain malicious code and this can force you to compromise on the security of the data saved on your computer.